Top 4 Concerts of the Coming Week

Yes, it’s funny in a weirded-out way — a 7-foot clown from Atlanta, Ga. with a golden voice sings operatic versions of songs such as Lorde’s hit “Royals.” A video of that song Puddles did with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox a year ago has racked up nearly 9 million views.

He also showed in wowing an overflow crowd at the same venue during Bethlehem’s Musikfest in August that there’s plenty of well-developed humor in his show.

But what makes Puddles so good is that he can sing those songs in a good, and inventive, way.

Ian Anderson has been the voice of British prog-rock band Jethro Tull for nearly 50 years, producing 45 albums (including live and compilation discs), more than a third of which have gone gold or platinum. He sang such iconic songs as “Aqualung,” “Bungle in the Jungle” and “Living in the Past.”

As Anderson, at 67, moves toward the end of his career, he says he wants people to identify him with the new music he makes, and so has struck out on a solo career. His new disc, “Homo Erraticus,” is his sixth, and he says he foresees no more records under the Jethro Tull name.

When legendary Brit punk band the Pork Dukes had its heyday in the late 1970s, it was a cult band — its over-the-top offensive and sexually themed songs delighted its listeners but had no hope of radio play or a broader audience.

Thirty-five years later, rappers doing much the same thing with far less humor are hits, and the Pork Dukes easily could have been a template for such popular parody bands as Steel Panther. The Pork Dukes is still at it. Last year it released an EP, “Zizi is My Bitch.” The band is starting its U.S. tour in the Lehigh Valley.

Justin Hayward isn’t just the singer in The Moody Blues – the distinctive voice heard on such iconic songs such as “Nights in White Satin” and “Tuesday Afternoon,” but he also wrote those songs, which helped make the 1967 Moodies album “Days of Future Past” not only its most successful, but its best. He also wrote its last No. 1 song, 1986’s “Your Wildest Dreams.”

Hayward also has had a successful solo career, releasing 10 solo discs – six of which (including the latest studio disc, 2013’s “Spirits of the Western Sky”) have hit the Top 100 in the U.K. Hayward’s most recent disc is a live version of that disc, “Spirits Live.”

In concert, he plays both his solo songs and his Moodies compositions.